Outsiders

PHOTO 7 - Meeting.JPG — “Outsiders is outstanding… It’s a real feat of narrative balancing…”
**— Vulture**
“It’s rare to find reporting on the large structural issues behind the surge in homelessness on the West Coast that also humanizes the unsheltered people at the center of the debate. Outsiders’ ability to do both is a uniquely compelling narrative feat.”
**— TIME**
“It doesn’t feel like intellectual broccoli. It’s like very bingeable.... The first time I listened to it I listened to like five episodes in a row… I didn’t want to get off my bike.”
**— Michael Hobbes, co-host of You’re Wrong About, Maintenance Phase, If Books Could Kill**
“This podcast… is peerless. The only contemporary work of journalism on American poverty that I think comes close is [Matthew] Desmond's ‘Evicted.’”
**— Mason Bryan, associate opinion editor of Crosscut**

I created Outsiders, an audio documentary by KNKX Public Radio and The Seattle Times chronicling homelessness in one city, Olympia, Wash., for more than a year.

TIME named it one of the 10 best podcasts of 2020 and it was a finalist for a Livingston Award in national reporting. I made the project with support from a national fellowship with USC Annenberg’s Center for Health Journalism.

Here’s an essay I wrote outlining the questions driving the podcast. Here’s another essay laying out what I learned from my time with Olympia’s unsheltered population.

And here’s where you can find the podcast:

Website
Apple Podcasts
Spotify